Internet use and protest in Malaysia and other authoritarian regimes : challenging information scarcity / Kris Ruijgrok.
2021
HM851 .R85 2021
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Internet use and protest in Malaysia and other authoritarian regimes : challenging information scarcity / Kris Ruijgrok.
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ISBN
9783030683252 (electronic book)
3030683257 (electronic book)
9783030683245
3030683249
3030683257 (electronic book)
9783030683245
3030683249
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 263 pages) : illustrations
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-68325-2 doi
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HM851 .R85 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23/1
320.01
320.01
Summary
This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule. By breaking up the causal chain into various steps, it provides a thorough and nuanced understanding of internets role in different stages of the mobilization process. It argues that the impact of internet use on anti-governmental protesting differs per step in the mobilization chain, and also that the effect depends on both the on- and offline repression of the regime, as well as on the type of internet that is available. While staying far away from any technologically deterministic claims about the internet, the book demonstrates that the internet especially plays an important role in the early stages of the mobilization process: By exposing citizens to alternative political information online, internet users are more likely to become sympathetic towards anti-governmental protest movements. Kris Ruijgrok is Lecturer at the PPLE Multi-Disciplinary Institute (Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Theories, concepts and practices of democracy.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Mobilisation Chain under Authoritarian Rule
Chapter 3. The Direct Effect of Internet Use on Anti-Government Protest
Chapter 4. Step 1) Internet Use and Sympathizing with an Anti-Government Protest Movement
Chapter 5. Step 2) Internet Use and The Informing of Protest Sympathisers
Chapter 6. Step 3) Internet Use and Being Motivated to Join an Anti-Government Protest
Chapter 7. Scaling up the Malaysian Findings
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Reflections.
Chapter 2. The Mobilisation Chain under Authoritarian Rule
Chapter 3. The Direct Effect of Internet Use on Anti-Government Protest
Chapter 4. Step 1) Internet Use and Sympathizing with an Anti-Government Protest Movement
Chapter 5. Step 2) Internet Use and The Informing of Protest Sympathisers
Chapter 6. Step 3) Internet Use and Being Motivated to Join an Anti-Government Protest
Chapter 7. Scaling up the Malaysian Findings
Chapter 8. Conclusions and Reflections.